With love…
September 29th, 2007
to the Houston House Heads and music lovers:13-track-13.mp3.I wish I could tell you their website but I can gather CM Entertainment, “Korean Best Music”, bar code 8-806301711049. Also, please go by the Grow Your Writing Business
- website to enjoy a weekend conversation. Enjoy!
Around the dusty blackboard…What is love?
1. ‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’ Billy - age 4, wow
2. ‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’ Karl - age 5, lol! yes, smells matter
3. ‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’ Tommy - age 6
4. ‘Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.’ Mary Ann - age 4
Best metaphors and similes in high school…
1. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. (amen, brother)
2. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. (who has this kid been talking to?!)
3. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. (sorry to my Canadian buddies)
4. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. (LOL!!)
From my traveling journals…
1. To say ignorance is a bliss, is to chew into an unknown protein source that’s not quiet beef or chicken but the sauce and the rice taste so darn good, you pray for quiet perpetual ignorance.
2. An oxymoron is the comforting uncomfortable feeling of cramps and gas she got after drinking real cow milk after weeks without it…pain never tasted so good!
3. Friendship is when your friend finds all the salsa clubs abroad and watches you be happy because she doesn’t dance a lick.
4. Happiness is looking at the 4×7 “water closet”/apartment and knowing she don’t need a thing but a good stable companion and her friends are only a phone call away.
5. She felt icky, like when the weird wrinkling, balding, and creepy foreigner, who couldn’t speak a lick of Korean even after 4 years in the country, wouldn’t stop looking at her breast even with two shirts on.
dried squid french fries
Consider yourself invited, 8/11, 6:30pm
July 28th, 2007
Poetry, Colombian food, salsa, good friends…what else could you want?! Life is GOOD and I am so blessed to have a friends and supporters like you, so come out to my big bash and let me know through an email or evite.com
Arepas & Empanadas (family friendly atmosphere)
12792 Veterans Memorial Dr., Houston, TX 77014
$15 per person covers buffet and the temporary booze license cost
BYOB, as well as your poems or instruments
6:30 - 7:30 Poetry get down
8:00 - 9 free salsa lessons
9 - 11 PARTY! and then probably the Tropicana
Remember, if I can't pack it, it ain't going!
Ya know, I have to thank poet SCEF for allowing me to rediscover how much fun performance poetry can be. Please support him and the folks at Mojo Rising for hosting the Poetic Jazz Night every 3rd Thursday of the month. Also, thanks to the wonderful musicians: Al on the Congas and Alex on the sax. That was such a beautiful present…so SCEF, you hosting my fiesta, o ke?
Life just started sprinting…
July 22nd, 2007
Locally: My big bash is coming up Aug. 11th, if you are in town please come by. My good friend and artist Yvonne Zepeda will be organizing it. I also have a new cell number and calls are free from pc to pc if you have a Google Talk Beta but you need a gmail account and a microphone headset. Email me if you have any questions.
Thursday, July 26th, I will be supporting poet and friend SCEF (pronounced with a hard K) at Mojo Rising for poetry. Check out his website: poetryishiphop.
Check out my art at the Starbucks off 249 and Antoine. I have 3 pieces from my light photography, 5 poems, and 4 abstract paintings. Thank you to Mr. T. Smith, manager, for his continued support. Please stop by and show your latte love.
I LOVE my financial planners. Thanks to their help I should be credit card free within a year and a half. They are honest, reached at any time and knowledgeable: Kyle Sadler at Valic and the Moore Insurance Group.
In the blogosphere:
Good luck to all the contestants of the Top 10. I am not sure how to put all the links on my blog so I am going to send you over to my friend Selpana’s blog. Check it out.
FREE!! What more do you need to know? Wikki is offering free space which I will try out with my class this fall. Love existentialist drama? get a class set of books from the queen herself, Ayn Rand. Subscribe to Grant Wrangler to get updates teachers and artists and non-profits.
Mad love again to Barnes and Noble as I just got my latest Moleskin for $10, check out the back to school sale with 25% off plus the additional teacher discount.
Below is a pic of the once a month Galveston poetry competition hosted by SCEF. It was so much fun and a beautiful drive.
This blog is rated….
July 15th, 2007
Mingle2 - Online Dating
For usage of the words crack (3x) and gun (1x). This rebellion thing really takes work and I don’t know if Waits would look at me with a PG rating!! I thought at least I was a PG-13! LOL! Thanks to Gunfighter for this find.
add to del.icio.usKeep the Internet FREE!
July 12th, 2007
I listen to stations on the net all the time but soon these music services will be asking you to pay. So if you feel your sole purpose in life is to fund someone’s kid’s hummer, then by all means pay some money. If not:
Please call your Congressional representatives in the Senate and ask them to force immediate action on the Internet Radio Equality Act and bring the bill to a vote. It is critical that their phones begin ringing off the hook starting early in the morning. If it’s busy, please try again later.
Senator John Cornyn: (202) 224-2934
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison: (202) 224-5922
For more info check out http://www.savenetradio.org/ or Tim Westergren’s Pandora’s Project.
add to del.icio.usBroken, Broke: Clap Hands!
July 6th, 2007
Colorful language aside, having to deal with Houston crack heads on trucks speeding by me creating tidal waves, crack heads at Lez Zep and Double Trouble (minus Vaughn) concert, having to cancel my birthday plans three times now, replacing tires on my car and crashing my computer…all I can do is clap like I broke dishes. But hey, Wordpress is updated and running…I am still tinkering with it so I plan to do a follow up post schedule to come out later this month. So as I sit on a lovely Friday night loading and organizing my desktop, what have I learned from this experience: ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA!! Thanks to Flaquis for all his help and the folks at Latino Internet Cafe who were able to save 5 DVDs of my data…lots of love!!!
My late Birthday Party on the 9th of August, look forward to some more info .
Windows can go and….yeah, well, add a purchase of office to that list and a prayer that it wont be another lock and loaded night in front of my screen….DUDE!